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Wednesday, July 25, 2012

PCJSS representative urges the EMRIP to encourage the States to implement treaties, agreements and other constructive arrangements

Mr. Bidhayak
Chakma, assistant secretary for youth affairs of the Parbatya Chattagram Jana
Samhati (PCJSS), urged the Expert Mechanism on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples
(EMRIP) to encourage the states concerned, including Bangladesh,
to implement treaties, agreements and other constructive arrangements, beside other
arrangement to ensure rights relating to language and culture of the indigenous
peoples.

Mr. Chakma,
on behalf of the PCJSS, raised this issue during his intervention on Agenda
Item-5: the Role of Language and Culture in the Promotion and Protection of the
Rights and Identity of Indigenous Peoples at the 5th session of the EMRIP on 11
July 2012. The fifth session of the EMRIP is taking place in Geneva at the
United Nations Palais des Nations from 9 July 2012 till 13 July 2012.

In his
statement, Bidhayak Chakma welcomed the decision of the Human
Rights Council to request the EMRIP to carry out study on the role of language
and culture in the promotion and protection of the rights and identity of
indigenous peoples. He also added that in Bangladesh there is no arrangement to
protect and promote languages and cultures of the indigenous peoples of the
country. In the contrary, alarming cultural aggression by the mainstream
populations over indigenous cultures continues to happen in different forms,
for instance, distortion or renaming the original name of local places by the
government machineries.

He
also alleged that the government of Bangladesh even does not recognize any
existence of indigenous people of the country. Very recently, the government
has issued an official order to the government and public representatives, not
to attend any programmes on observation of the International Day for the
World’s Indigenous Peoples, as the Day ‘9 August’ is approaching.

He also said that some specific rights relating to language and
cultures of the indigenous people of the CHT are guaranteed by the CHT Accord
signed in 1997 between government of Bangladesh and PCJSS. But it is irony that
the CHT Accord has not been implemented, even after some nearly fifteen years
of signing the Accord.In relation to
the indigenous people of the CHT, implementation of the CHT Accord is urgent
and imperative to ensure their rights relating to language and culture, and
other inseparable rights.

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